Green Book: not all black and white
Miss Lumière • Friday, February 8, 2019 Green Book, reviewed by Miss Lumière ... America in the 1960s ... The white working class tough guy on a tour of the South with a refined black musician ... What could go wrong? ... Food for thought ... "Motorist's guide for negroes"
Richard Beasley SC
On The Couch • Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Richard Beasley SC is On The Couch ... Novellist and silk ... Until now he was ankle deep in the Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission, which reported on January 29 ... Last meal on death row ... Playing with a horse jigger ... Thoughts on water and life
Radical social change
Critics Corner • Thursday, January 31, 2019 Tax deductions, gender discrimination and the US Constitution get a workout in On the Basis of Sex ... Ruth and Marty Ginsburg's great case, together ... Tenth Circuit bowled over by RBG's five minute final submission ... Breaching the legislative dam against equality ... Miss Lumière at the preview
Watery grave
Procrustes • Wednesday, January 30, 2019 How Davos started ... Culture wars and water ... Darling, what has happened to Murray? ... Paucity of H2O ... Barnaby backs the cotton plantations over the fish ... Water theft is a traditional bush lark ... No one pays the price ... The Moors knew how to manage water, according to Procrustes
Six of the best
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Supreme Court of NSW birches Law Society for bringing a misconceived misconduct allegation against a lawyer ... Witnessing a signature for a child's passport application ... Failure to disclose relevant material ... Jurisdictional error ... Undue delay ... Bureau de Spank gets spanked